A Focus Particle in Quioquitani Zapotec

*Santa Catarina Quiogultani is a town o£ approximately 1,000
inhabiatants located in the southern mountains of Oaxaca in the district of
San Carlos Yautepec. The main town of the language area is Santa Catalina
Quierl, which has approximately 2,500 inhabitants. The total language
area, which includes two or three other smaller towns which speak closely
related dialects, encompasses about 5,000 people. Field work began in
June, 1983. This study was done in the spring of 1987 in consultation with
Zapotec speaker Emiliano Zurita, age 19.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Paragraph Analysis for Amatlln Zapotee 1

David Brent Riggs

Participant Accessibility in Yalalag Zapotee 12

Ronald Newberg

A Focus Particle in Quioquitani Zapotee 26

Michael Ward

Fronting and Related Features in Santo Domingo Albarradas Zapotee 33

Wolfram Kreikebaum

Clause and Sentence-Level Word Order and Discourse Strategy

in Chichicapan Zapotee Oral Narrative Discourse 72

Joseph Benton

The Functions of the Clitic -ha in Western Ixtlan Zapotee 85

Grace Thiessen

A Search for Naturalness in Translated Material 101

Joan Smith

Journal Writing with a Language Associate 107

Diane Poole

A Chinantec Fable lU

Judi Lynn Anderson

The Multipurpose Chinantec Word "ja*" 122

Jim Rupp

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